AEMT NREMT Test Questions with 100% Correct
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You are dispatched to an electronics manufacturing plant where a woman has
reportedly collapsed. As you enter the assembly area, you see the woman lying supine
on the floor with several of her co-workers attempting aid. As you approach, you can
see she is unresponsive. One of her co-workers says "She was standing next to me and I
think she just fainted. I caught her when she fell toward me and I laid her down here."
What would be the best course of action?
a. Open her airway
b. Assess her aspirations
c. Take her pulse
d. Assess her skin
a. Open her airway.
Which of the following statements with regard to D5w is not true?
a. D5w is contraindicated as a fluid replacement in patients who are hypovolemic
b. D5w should not be used with Dilantin
c. D5w is used for long term therapy
d. D5w is used to dilute concentrated drugs for IV infusion
c. D5w is used for long term therapy
You are treating a female patient who is complaining of chest pain. She is diaphoretic
with a BP of 98/50. You have her medications on board which includes a prescription
for nitroglycerine. Medical control has instructed you to administer 1 nitroglycerine
, tablet sublingually. How would you respond?
a. Respectfully disagree and state that you feel it is in the best interest of the patient
with a blood pressure so low to not lower it any further by administering nitroglycerine.
b. Administer 1 nitroglycerin tablet as instructed
c. Instruct medical control to get out the protocol books and look under the
contraindications for nitroglycerin administration
d. Repeat the vital signs to medical control and ask if they still wish to have you
administer the nitroglycerine with the blood pressure that low
d. Repeat the vital signs to medical control and ask if they still wish to have you administer
the nitroglycerine with the blood pressure that low
You are the first EMS unit on scene of a multiple casualty incident. A crane has fallen
from a building roof top and ripped through an adjacent building. What should you do
according to the ICS?
a. Notify dispatch of the need for an Incident Commander and begin triaging patients
b. Inform IC of your location and begin triaging patients if the scene is safe
c. Stay a safe distance from the incident and do what the IC tells you to do
d. Take incident command until relieved or reassigned
d. Take incident command until relieved or reassigned
The National Incident Management System (NIMS) includes a component referred to as
"Interoperability". This component is concerned with:
a. Inter-agency communications before, during, and after an MCI
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You are dispatched to an electronics manufacturing plant where a woman has
reportedly collapsed. As you enter the assembly area, you see the woman lying supine
on the floor with several of her co-workers attempting aid. As you approach, you can
see she is unresponsive. One of her co-workers says "She was standing next to me and I
think she just fainted. I caught her when she fell toward me and I laid her down here."
What would be the best course of action?
a. Open her airway
b. Assess her aspirations
c. Take her pulse
d. Assess her skin
a. Open her airway.
Which of the following statements with regard to D5w is not true?
a. D5w is contraindicated as a fluid replacement in patients who are hypovolemic
b. D5w should not be used with Dilantin
c. D5w is used for long term therapy
d. D5w is used to dilute concentrated drugs for IV infusion
c. D5w is used for long term therapy
You are treating a female patient who is complaining of chest pain. She is diaphoretic
with a BP of 98/50. You have her medications on board which includes a prescription
for nitroglycerine. Medical control has instructed you to administer 1 nitroglycerine
, tablet sublingually. How would you respond?
a. Respectfully disagree and state that you feel it is in the best interest of the patient
with a blood pressure so low to not lower it any further by administering nitroglycerine.
b. Administer 1 nitroglycerin tablet as instructed
c. Instruct medical control to get out the protocol books and look under the
contraindications for nitroglycerin administration
d. Repeat the vital signs to medical control and ask if they still wish to have you
administer the nitroglycerine with the blood pressure that low
d. Repeat the vital signs to medical control and ask if they still wish to have you administer
the nitroglycerine with the blood pressure that low
You are the first EMS unit on scene of a multiple casualty incident. A crane has fallen
from a building roof top and ripped through an adjacent building. What should you do
according to the ICS?
a. Notify dispatch of the need for an Incident Commander and begin triaging patients
b. Inform IC of your location and begin triaging patients if the scene is safe
c. Stay a safe distance from the incident and do what the IC tells you to do
d. Take incident command until relieved or reassigned
d. Take incident command until relieved or reassigned
The National Incident Management System (NIMS) includes a component referred to as
"Interoperability". This component is concerned with:
a. Inter-agency communications before, during, and after an MCI
